Saturday, February 20, 2010

Market Conditions in Apple Valley/ My 100th blog!

Hello Real Estate Fans!

Here is the news you can use from Apple Valley, CA

As of 2/19/10

There are 293 active houses for sale.
85 homes are contingent
there are 212 homes in escrow.
34 homes sold in the last 2 weeks.

Average square foot of house is 2022

Average days on market 41

Average sale price $127K.

The % of sales price to list price 99.46%.
The highest percent over asking was 135%
The lowest was 87%.

14 sold over asking,
7 sold at asking.
14 sold under asking

20 were bank owned
4 were short sales

Lowest price home was sold for $78K
Highest price home sold for $400K.

Let’s look at shorts sales over all
There are 72 active listing
53 contingent
41 are pending
and 52 have sold in the last six months


Thanks to VVMLS for the stats.

Happy House Hunting from Karen @ Hamilton Landon GMAC
www.VictorValleyDreamHomes.com

Reasons To Go To A Real Live Tax Person

Sure you may save a few bucks if you do your taxes yourself.

But my dear clients, PLEASE LISTEN when I go though the contract and point out what you want to talk to your tax person about.

This is the time of year to do it.

You are doing your taxes anyway, go in and get tax advice.

Should I buy now?

What about the way I am holding title on my house, does it give me and mine the best protection possible?

Should I re-fi?

Should I be looking for a rental for tax purposes and how will that effect my next year? and future years?

If you are in the Victor Valley area, and you are looking for someone to give you personal service and straight talk, call who I go to for taxes, Tery Lucus, 760-242-7422, tell her Karen@ Hamilton Landon GMAC sent you.

Friday, February 5, 2010

News You Can Use 2/5/10

Here is the news you can use from Apple Valley, CA

As of 2/5/10
There are 305 active houses for sale.
73 homes are contingent
25 went pending this week
there are 184 pending over all
8 homes sold this week.

Average square foot of house is 2549

Average price per square foot $74.31

Average days on market 37

Average sale price $198.238

The % of sales price to list price 100.52

My guess is that agents haven’t recording their sales yet.
8 is way off the average # of sales our area normally has.

Lowest price home was sold for $74.500.
Highest price home sold for $488,900.

Thanks to VVMLS for the stats.

Happy House Hunting from Karen @ Hamilton Landon GMAC
www.VictorValleyDreamHomes.com